― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:39 (twenty years ago) link
Also, did you stay for the second encore?
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 15 November 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 November 2003 08:02 (twenty years ago) link
Last night Dulli praised The Darkness. And I so wished I had my cigarette lighter when they played "Faded."
― j.lu (j.lu), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 15 November 2003 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 15 November 2003 21:47 (twenty years ago) link
― bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:08 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:55 (twenty years ago) link
Destroy: my current financial state which means I have no idea when I can get hold of the new Twilight Singers album.
― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
I think it's an act, the whole asshole thing. I think he's a nice er gentleman.
― scott m (mcd), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, I was there, but had to leave early (i.e. 1:15) due to some, er, relationship issues. So I missed the encores. :(
See, the problem with these late shows is that it gives you way too much time to drink beforehand...
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
there's a crappy mp3 floating around on soulseek.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 17:10 (twenty years ago) link
Among the reasons the Whigs never had a big crossover hit: most of their best songs wound up as import CD single b-sides.
― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.summerskiss.com/category/news/
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Search: everything between their first and last albums.Destroy: their first and last albums.
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 August 2006 22:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
The tracklisting for Unbreakable/A Retrospective out May 1 on Rhino Records
1- Retarded2- Crazy3- Turn On The Water4- Debonair5- I'm A Soldier6- 667- Be Sweet8- Come See About Me9- Uptown Again10- What Jail Is Like11- Magazine12- I'm Her Slave13- Going To Town14- Gentlemen15- Let Me Lie To You16- John the Baptist17- Crime Scene Part One18- Faded
Not chronological, very incomplete, but it's something, I suppose. :-/
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
Search: pretty much everything not on hereDestroy: the people who decided not to rerelease/remaster the whole catalog (maybe they will, though, someday, who knows?)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
One disc is always going to be incomplete, isn't it?
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― jimbo (electricsound), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 26 January 2007 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
(hell, just click on "whigsbitch" and check out all the other stuff this guy/girl has uploaded on youtube)
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 26 January 2007 13:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM, Friday, 9 March 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
was really going ham on "black love" a week or so ago, listening to basically nothing else. some pretty amazing moments but all in all it's a really frustrating record. the magic of "gentleman" is missing somehow, greg dulli's singing struck me as really lazy, out-of-tune for no good reason. the worst is the mixing, it must be dulli's rhythm guitar that's pushed up so far, why? he just grinds away on like two notes. isn't this supposed to be funky? let the bass lead. rick mccollum is some kind of rough genius tho. and the drumming is really good; i read in an interview years and years ago that dulli booted a drummer for basically being a druggy raver? was that this guy?
songs like "night by candlelight", i don't get why the strings don't even seem like they're arranged. there are these big crescendos, but the bass and the chords aren't even the same, everyone is sawing away with emotion. yeah yeah i get the stonesy shambolic thing but this is a big unfocused mess.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
hmm...interesting i've always liked it more than gentlemen...not really scrutinized the mix though.
but honestly i loved this album at a point in my life when i was very young, very depressed, and very drunk and it was so perfect for that i can't really judge it from a distance.
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 17:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i feel the same way about gentlemen!
the "hard bitten lifer dude at the bar telling you kids crazy stories" steez about dulli that made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. hard relationships, drugs, booze, bad decisions, leather jackets, old records, sexy ladies with crazy problems, getting your shoes shined, bailing out your friend who got caught at a cockfight, bad shit going town to-ni-ee-ight, all that. i dunno if i'm just OLD now but it doesn't wear very well anymore. half the time i just want to say, greg, come on, your life isn't really like this. relax.
― goole, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
a friend of mine worked on a whigs video shoot a looong time ago and said that dulli showed up way way late, drinking a bottle of whiskey and walking with a pimp cane
― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
gentlemen was the last one with the original drummer, then black love had a new drummer, then 1965 had another new drummer iirc
yeah dulli is totally over the top with the shtick, but somehow it seemed to usually work. dude is v. good at playing rock star.
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Their version of Come See About Me is still probably my favourite cover of all time.
― Jamie_ATP, Sunday, 13 June 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ YES
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 14 June 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
like their Creep and Can't Get Enough Of better, I think
― BIG SAUS aka the porkbanger (sic), Monday, 14 June 2010 11:50 (fourteen years ago) link
still can't figure out what the hell honkey's ladder is about. Is this song about race and class? or is it just about some crime movie that I haven't seen?
― akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh also, after 3 years, I just found my copy of black love.
― akm, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Love Black Love, especially Night by Candlelight.
Anyone know the origin of the song title Vampire Lanois? Dulli get mad at Daniel Lanois or something?
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
It's not a dis. iirc they were New Orleans pals back then and its a nod to his fashion sense
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah. That's neat-o.
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Gentleman is a quite a good record. It has aged very well.
― earlnash, Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it has about three or four very good songs. and the rest is a mess. i can't work out whether it's an appealing mess or not.
― charlie h, Friday, 28 January 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
REVIVE FOR RETURN OF WHIGS (i think the revive thread was on the sandbox)
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b011571a1f52b970b-800wiHyssop...in my perfume?
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
is it just coachella or a full tour?
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing them tomorrow. Psyched.
― Mule, Sunday, 31 July 2022 10:25 (two years ago) link
really impressed with the new album especially the two tracks that van hunt features on ("jyja" and "take me there")
doesn't really remind me of any other whigs record in the catalog except in spades, and only in that every song does something different but there is a sustained, mean/forbidding/defeatedly gorgeous atmosphere they share. my thoughtless one-sentence review would be this is what i wanted dynamite steps to be
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:40 (two years ago) link
this is the most obnoxiously brickwalled album i've heard in a while
― ufo, Friday, 9 September 2022 05:35 (one year ago) link
it's a shame because otherwise it's yet another quite good album from dulli. "jyja" is a real highlight
― ufo, Friday, 9 September 2022 05:55 (one year ago) link
tentatively would put it better than do to the beast, not quite as good as in spades
― ufo, Friday, 9 September 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link
Seeing them tomorrow, first headlining gig I've seen from them in a while. Last time was opening for Built to Spill on that weird bill, which I mostly remember for being loud. I'm taking a blank slate friend who I think has never even heard of them, I'm curious what he thinks.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:02 (one year ago) link
love this record
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
While not quite as good as the times I saw them with the singers and horns, they killed it tonight. Dulli's voice sounds great, and the setlist leaned confidently toward their more recent material, with stuff from the first era doled out judiciously. Want to say "Line of Shots" from the new one was a highlight.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 September 2022 05:06 (one year ago) link
Apparently Dulli was having amp and guitar problems all night, but sounded great. Some dude already posted a few clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUIPT4YxtBk
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 11 September 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Listening to the album now, had a rush when Marcy Mays’ voice unexpectedly opened Domino and Jimmy. With so long between nu-Whigs albums, they should noodle out a Twilight Singers record or two between ‘em.
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
Should have put a spoiler alert there! Was just about to listen.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
I meant to hide tag but fucked it up :(
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
I’m on phone but endorse anyone linking a mod request and then deleting the following posts!
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
oh come on
any number of places have mentioned her involvement
― mookieproof, Sunday, 11 September 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
No worries. I didn't really care that much.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 September 2022 00:21 (one year ago) link
Just to spoil further, Domino & Jimmy on morning TV:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJ3kolKb0U
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 12 September 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
I can't believe I used to go to clubs on weeknights on a regular basis. But I did have a good time; Dulli continues to never give less than 115%. I wasn't familiar with the new stuff, but it's all solid. Have they been doing that shout-out to Shawn Smith at other shows?
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
Just finally getting around to the new one, man that opener is like Afghan Whigs gone stoner rock, I dig it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:16 (one year ago) link
I was going through our kitchen cabinets and found an old jar of jam made with Afghan figs.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 5 November 2022 22:43 (one year ago) link
god they were so good live
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2024 02:30 (six months ago) link
At least two of my fave shows of all time.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 02:38 (six months ago) link